Odisha Public Service Commission (OPSC) finally made corrections in the previous advertisement of 2012-13 for the recruitment of the post of Assistant Section Officer (ASO) in Odisha Secretariat & Governor’s Secretariat. More than two years passed those who earlier applied for the post of ASO but till now the exam date is not fixed, now again OPSC invited applications from new candidates after revising the categorical reservations as mentioned in the previous advertisement.

After complaint of the general category candidates that more than 76% are reservations for SEBC,SC & ST in the advertisement for ASO of Odisha Secretariat, now it is revised & reservation Quota reduced to 50% for SEBC,SC,ST & 50% for general candidates. The below are the vacancy details for OPSC ASO 2014.

GOVERNOR'S SECRETARIAT

SI. No.

Category/ % of reservation

Men

Women

P.H.

Ex-S.M

Sports personnel

Total

1

UR/50%

4

2

Nil

Nil

Nil

6

2

SEBC / 11.25%

1

Nil

1

3

ST/22.50%

1

1

2

4

SC /16.25%

1

1

2

TOTAL

7

4

Nil

Nil

Nil

11

STATE SECRETARIAT

SI. No.

Category/ % of reservation

Men

Women

P.H.

Ex-S.M

Sports personnel

Total

I

UR/50%

267

133

24

24

8

400

2

SEBC / 11.25%

60

30

90

3

ST/22.50%

120

60

180

4

SC /16.25%

87

43

130

TOTAL

534

266

24

24

8

800

HOW TO APPLY ???

Those who want to apply for the post of ASO can apply through online from 01.09.2014 to 27.09.2014 till 23.59.

Indian Railways Catering And
Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has started booking Railway tickets with the help
of SMS. You can also enquiry the seat availability and fare for a particular
train in a particular class.

Railway
Minister Mallikarjun Kharge launched
the facility of Booking of train tickets with the help of SMS. 80 percent of
population of India owns mobile phones, but how many of them are using internet
connections in their mobile & how many of them are having a smart phone to
book an e ticket? Out of 80 percent only 10 percent mobiles access internet
connection. The online booking through IRCTC has now grown up to about
45 per cent of total reserved tickets.

The main motive under
which IRCTC stated SMS based booking Indian railways ticket is for common
man who does not have access to internet and cannot afford to buy smart phones.
Railway Minister said this service will be useful for the labourers those who
are staying away from homes, this service will convenient as well as
cost-effective and they will not have to travel to booking counters and wait in
the queue for the entire day & forgo a day’s earnings. The SMS scheme will
not be available during 8 am-12 pm for booking ARP/tatkal/general tickets.

Why IRCTC SMS booking?

With
the help of Indian Railways SMS based Reservation System passengers can easily
book their tickets with the help of two, three messages. With the help of this
facility of Indian Railways passengers need not to wait hours in queue or waiting to book
an E-ticket through the irctc.co.in after facing a lots of internet traffic,
now passengers can easily do Rail ticket booking though SMS. Almost all
passengers would have faced Internet problems, server problems, network
problems, various error messages while booking an E-ticket through Indian
Railways due to huge numbers of traffic.

·After getting the MMID & OTP you can book
your IRCTC SMS tickets with the help of SMS by sending it to 139 or 5676714.
For booking you need to type SMS with all your travel details like train
number, date of journey, boarding station and destination and Class of travel,
besides name, age and gender of the passenger then you have to send this to 139
or 5676714.

·After sending the SMS to the IRCTC the passenger will get the transaction
ID from the IRCTC then he have to reply the SMS with PAY followed by the
transaction ID and the bank password (OTP)

·After this you will get the confirmation message
and the ticket amount will be deducted from your bank account.

·
Then transaction a message will be sent to
the user by IRCTC which will be sufficient as the valid travel document along
with photo ID card in original.

At present Interbank Mobile
Payment System (IMPS) is required for the user to avail the facility of SMS
booking along with the Mobile Money Identifier (MMID) for making payment
through mobile. MMID is the seven digit random number which bank will provide
to the user. You can get your MMID by
visiting your branch else you can register your mobile number with this in your
ATM with your ATM card. MMID generation is a single click process
available with more than 26 Indian Banks covering over 90% of the total banking
subscriber base. The banks for the same are listed at http://www.npci.org.in/bankmember.aspx

Is it safe to do the monetary transaction through SMS using MMID & OTP
?

Yes, it is. Payment through
mobile phones was still evolving and banks are working on providing a safe,
secured and quick payment mechanism. You need to keep your MMID & OTP (One
Time Password) personal.

Whether any print out is
required in IRCTC's SMS based ticket booking?

No, after the transaction the
message which the user will receive will be sufficient for travel with valid
identity card. No print out is required with IRCTC SMS ticket booking.

What is the charge for booking train tickets with IRCTC SMS booking service?

The service is available to
all mobile subscribers and Rs 3 is being charged per SMS and payment gateway
charges are Rs 5 for ticket amount up to Rs 5,000 and Rs 10 for more than Rs
5,000.

How to cancel the IRCTC SMS based ticket?

Registered IRCTC users can now cancel the railway tickets booked by them
through SMS earlier by a simple two step process.

The Entire ticket needs to be cancelled:

STEP
1: An SMS
to be sent to 139 from your registered mobile to request for cancellation of
the ticket. SMS format as follow:

CAN <10 Digit PNR> <IRCTC
UserID>
For Example:CAN 2345678901 Papun

After submission of the above SMS, a message would be received from 139. The
text of the same is mentioned below.

“We have
received your request to cancel your PNR Number 2345678901. Please confirm the
cancellation by sending YES to 139.”

STEP
2: After
receipt of the above message, the user needs to confirm the cancellation

by sending an SMS as “YES” to 139.
After submission of the above SMS, a message would be received from 139. The
text of the same is mentioned below.

Odisha Public Service Commission (OPSC) is going to conduct examination of Assistant Section Officers(ASO) of Governor’s Secretariat & State Secretariat. There were various controversies regarding the percentage of reservation for various categories for the post of Assistant Section Officer Odisha. There were not any recruitment in Odisha secretariat Service (OSS) since 1996 hence its difficult manage all the day to day works of the State’s top office. That’s why OPSC Orissa decided to recruit ASO’s in order to run the office in a smooth manner.

As per a source the strength of Assistant Section officer in Secretariat is 1923 & 502 Section officers. But most of the posts are vacant so it’s difficult to manage the entire work load by the rest of Section Officers & Asst Section officers.

As per the present Notification of OPSC 811 ASO post is to be filled in by the commission. Working in Secretariat is one of the reputed Government job in Odisha, so many of the job seekers of Odisha were applied for the post, hope they will get the job & will succeed in future, I personally know some of the candidates who were dreaming in working in Secretariat as a Section Officer.

Is it easy to get the job assistant section officer orissa recruitment 2013??

A candidate must posses a Bachelors Degree in any discipline from a recognized University; or posses such other qualification equivalent there to and must have adequate knowledge in computer application. As per 2011 census population of Odisha is 41,947,358. I presented the number of population of Odisha to imagine the number of graduates those who have applied for the, presently the population may be more than 4 Crore 50 Lakh so the competition is going to be very tight, if you have that much of capability to crack the exam then only you can hope for the post.

Scheme and Subjects for the Odisha secretariat recruitment 2013 examination

(1) The candidate shall answer the question papers in English unless otherwise directed.

(2) Only those candidates who have been short listed after the written test shall be called for the Skill Test in Computer, which shall be of qualifying nature.

How much you will earn per month as an Asst Section officer in Odisha Secretariat??

Assistant Section Officer in (Group-C) of Odisha Governor’s secretariat Service and Odisha Secretariat Service under Home Department in the scale of pay of Rs.9300-34800/- carrying Grade Pay of Rs.4200/- with usual Dearness and other Allowances as may be sanctioned by the Government of Odisha from time to time. The posts are permanent. You will get Approximately Rs.30000 in 1st month salary (present DA 100% till now + HRA 20%)

How to study & what should be the strategy to successful in the OPSC section officer recruitment 2013 to be a Government employee under Govt of Odisha??

The detailed syllabus for the examination of the Orissa Public Service Commission exam 2013 is prescribed there in the advertisement published by the commission. You should cover all of the topics mentioned there so you should expect your position among the 811 Assistant Section Officers. You can’t find anywhere in internet, OPSC website regarding previous question papers of ASO Recruitment 2013. You can find opsc previous year question papers of OAS,OJS etc. That’s why study hard. Best of Luck.

Date of OPSC Assistant Section Officer Exam 2013?

There is no notification from the side of OPSC regarding the date & month of ASO Examination 2013. When they will announce I will update regarding that. Kindly check back the article regularly to know the exam date else check opsc.gov.in/recruitment.php

OPSC ASST. SECTION OFFICER (ASO) exam date fixed tentatively to be held on 09.02.2014 & 10.02.2014 but now POSTPONED due to unavoidable circumstances until further orders & new notification came on 28.08.2014 by reducing the reservation percentage of various categories & new candidates also invited to apply for the post.

It has been declared for information
of all concerned candidates those who have applied for Supply Inspector post of
Odishassc that the Preliminary examination for the post of Inspector of
Supplies advertised vide Commission's No.239510SSC dated 23.7.2012 will be held
on 13.1.2013 (Sunday) at 34 places spread all over the State Orissa in one
sitting from 10 AM to 12 noon.

There will be only General
Awareness exam in the preliminary exam of Supply Inspector recruitment 2012.

Candidates those who have applied
for the post of inspector of supplies of odishassc can download their admit
card from OSSC website, applicants need to download the admit cards at the
website of the odishassc and take print out thereof, which they have to carry
to the examination center. Instruction for Downloading the admit card is
available here. The website also gives a list of rejected applications with
grounds of rejection. Admit cards can be downloaded in respect of those
applicants whose applications have not been rejected. If any candidate is
unable to download the admit card through the website, he/she may appear in
person at the appropriate counter in the Commission's office during office
hours on any day between 8th January to 11th January, 2013 to collect the admit
card for supply inspector exam 2012.

Exam date of Supply Inspector 2012 not announced yet by
Odishassc, as OSSC has already mentioned in their advertisement that the supply
inspector preliminary exam will be dispensed if number of candidates will be
less than five thousand.

But Reject list of 7254 candidates have uploaded in OSSC website, the various reasons for rejecting the candidature of applicants are such as Under Age/Over Age, Non Submission of DAF (Detailed Application Form), No Signature in application form etc.

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Supply Inspector exam 2012 deferred means
postponed, as per the official Advertisement of OSSC dated 31.10.2012 it has
been stated that the exam of Supply Inspector which was tentatively fixed on
04.10.2012 was postponed due to some unavoidable reasons and date of exam of
supply inspector will be fixed in due course. If you have not download your admit card of supply inspector 2012 download it here. As the reject list have published they may soon announce the exam date.

For the post of Supply Inspector of Odisha SSC 63204candidates have applied online & more than 20000(Approximately) candidates
have applied for the Post of Inspector Of Supplies Advertisement Number 2395 of Odishassc, As we know the
preliminary examination of Supply Inspector which carries Pay band – II of Rupees. 9300 -34800 with Grade
Pay of Rupees 4200, means you will get Rs 23000 salary in hand in first month.
Candidates those who have applied for the post of Supply Inspector can download
their Admit Card easily online by using their USER ID and PASSWORD they have
got while applying for the post.